# Naoto Nakagawa - Auction Profile

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Updated: 2026-04-29T04:31:41.297Z

## Summary
- Lots tracked: 32
- Lots with prices: 21
- First auction date: 2004-04-24
- Latest auction date: 2026-01-25
- Median realised price: $2,100
- Price range: $25 to $92,500

## Market Takeaway
Naoto Nakagawa has 32 tracked lots. Median realized sale is around $2,100. Category concentration is still broad. Last 12 months recorded 5 sales. These metrics reflect recorded public auction results and may not include private transactions or every premium outlier sale.

## How To Read This Data
- Use median \($2,100\) as a typical result and the typical low/high band \($923 to $8,750\) as the middle 50% of recorded sales.
- Auction prices can include buyer premiums or fees depending on house reporting, so compare on a like\-for\-like basis.
- Condition, provenance, size, and attribution confidence can move final value materially versus median comps.

## Price Bands
- Under $1,000: 28.6% (6 sales)
- $1,000 to $10,000: 52.4% (11 sales)
- $10,000\+: 19% (4 sales)

## Recent Trend & Velocity
- Last 12 months sales: 5
- Previous 12 months sales: 1
- Recent 12 months median: $1,900
- Previous 12 months median: $1,700
- Median shift: 11.8%
- Latest sale date: 2026-01-25
- Days since latest sale: 93
- Market velocity: steady

## Top Auction Houses
- RoGallery: 9 lots
- Rago Arts and Auction Center: 5 lots
- Sotheby's: 4 lots
- Christie's: 3 lots
- Sarasota Estate Auction: 3 lots
- DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers: 2 lots
- Bonhams: 1 lots
- Curated Gallery Auctions: 1 lots
- Skinner: 1 lots
- William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals: 1 lots

## Top Categories
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## Recent Sold Lots
1. 2025-12-07 | Naoto Nakagawa \(b. 1944\) Signed American Modernist Mixed Media 1967 Modernist Kulicke Frame Painting | Curated Gallery Auctions | $3,000 | source: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot-naoto-nakagawa-b-1944-signed-american-modernist-mixed-media-1967-modernist-kulicke-frame-painting-422-c-44bf8238f5
2. 2026-01-25 | Naoto Nakagawa \(Born 1944\) Japanese, Abstract Expressionist Acrylic on Paper Painting | Sarasota Estate Auction | N/A
3. 2026-01-25 | Naoto Nakagawa \(Born 1944\) Japanese, Large Textured Mixed Media on Canvas White Rose Floral "White Angels" | Sarasota Estate Auction | $1,900
4. 2026-01-25 | Naoto Nakagawa \(Born 1944\) Japanese, Pastel on Paper Floral, "Portrait of Queens II" | Sarasota Estate Auction | N/A
5. 2025-05-28 | Naoto Nakagawa, Over the Table | Wright | N/A
6. 2024-06-05 | Naoto Nakagawa | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | $1,700
7. 2024-03-23 | NAOTO NAKAGAWA, PORTRAIT OF ROSES, LITHOGRAPH | RoGallery | N/A
8. 2023-11-15 | Naoto Nakagawa | DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers | N/A
9. 2023-09-11 | Naoto Nakagawa \(Japanese\-American, b.1944\), "Cave Rose X", 1993, mixed media on paper, depicts two white roses with speckled white on black background with deckled edge, monogrammed "NN" at lower right, signed, titled... | Winter Associates, Inc. | $375
10. 2021-09-15 | NAOTO NAKAGAWA \(B. 1944\) New York Post, 1972 | Bonhams | N/A
11. 2021-03-23 | Naoto Nakagawa \(Japanese\-American, B 1944\) painting "Birth", acrylic on canvas, signed "Nakagawa" on reverse, very good condition | William Bunch Auctions & Appraisals | $550
12. 2020-11-27 | Naoto Nakagawa, Flight, Lithograph | RoGallery | N/A
13. 2020-11-27 | Naoto Nakagawa, Portrait of Roses, Lithograph, signed in pencil | RoGallery | N/A
14. 2019-02-22 | Naoto Nakagawa, Portrait of Roses, Lithograph | RoGallery | $25
15. 2017-10-19 | Naoto Nakagawa, Flight, Lithograph | RoGallery | $50
16. 2016-10-20 | Naoto Nakagawa, Flight, Lithograph | RoGallery | N/A
17. 2016-04-28 | Naoto Nakagawa, Flight, Lithograph | RoGallery | N/A
18. 2013-05-17 | Naoto Nakagawa \(American, b. 1944\), Two Works: Violated Reflection and Transition, Both signed, titled, and dated "...NAKAGAWA \- 70" in | Skinner | $923
19. 2012-05-12 | Naoto Nakagawa \(Japanese, b. 1944\) Still Life in Black, 1979 | Rago Arts and Auction Center | $8,750
20. 2011-03-09 | NAOTO NAKAGAWA | Sotheby's | $5,000
21. 2011-03-01 | Naoto Nakagawa, Still Life, Lithograph | RoGallery | N/A
22. 2011-03-01 | Naoto Nakagawa, Still Life with Fox and Birds, Lithograph | RoGallery | $40
23. 2010-09-27 | NAOTO NAKAGAWA | Sotheby's | $92,500
24. 2010-09-27 | NAOTO NAKAGAWA | Sotheby's | $18,750

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